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Flashcards by Adela Muriel Jácome Olivares, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Adela Muriel Jácome Olivares
about 7 years ago
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| Question | Answer |
| INTUITIVE ɪnˈtʃuː.ɪ.tɪv | FORMAL DEFINITION: Based on feelings rather than facts or proof. MY DEFINITION: Instinctive. EXAMPLE: Men are often regarded as less intuitive than women. |
| DOWNSIDE ˈdaʊn.saɪd | FORMAL DEFINITION: A disadvantage of a situation MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: The downside of living in the city is the polluted air. |
| COMPULSIVE /kəmˈpʌl.sɪv/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Doing something a lot and unable to stop doing it. MY DEFINITION: Uncontrollable impulse. EXAMPLE: Obesity is a compulsive eating disorder |
| DECISIVE /dɪˈsaɪ.sɪv/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Able to make decisions quickly and confidently, or showing this quality. strongly affecting how a situation will progress or end: (Ex: These results could prove decisive in establishing the criminal's identity.) MY DEFINITION: Asertive EXAMPLE: You need to be more decisive. |
| INQUISITIVE /ɪnˈkwɪz.ə.tɪv/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Wanting to discover as much as you can about things, sometimes in a way that annoys people. MY DEFINITION: Very curious of every detail... sometimes meddlesome. EXAMPLE: Children that age tend to be quite inquisitive. |
| AMBITIOUS /æmˈbɪʃ.əs/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Having a strong wish to be successful, powerful, or rich. MY DEFINITION: Aiming hight. Resolved. EXAMPLE: Napoleon was an ambitious emperor. If a plan or idea is ambitious, it needs a great amount of skill and effort to be successful or be achieved. Note: The preisdent anaunced an ambitious plan to modernize the railway network. |
| CONSCIENTIOUS /ˌkɒn.ʃiˈen.ʃəs/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Putting a lot of effort into your work. MY DEFINITION: Hardworking, perfectionist. EXAMPLE: Lisa is a conscientious sculptress. |
| INTROVERT /ˈɪn.trə.vɜːt/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Someone who is shy, quiet, and unable to make friends easily. MY DEFINITION: Someone with trouble to socialize. EXAMPLE: The introvert fox looked at me with distrust. |
| EXTROVERT /ˈek.strə.vɜːt / | FORMAL DEFINITION: An energetic happy person who enjoys being with other people. MY DEFINITION: Someone who enjoys social interaction. EXAMPLE: Robert is pretty extrocvert. He is friends with everyone. |
| HONEST /ˈɒn.ɪst/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Telling the truth or able to be trusted and not likely to steal, cheat, or lie. MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: |
| FRANK /fræŋk/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Telling the truth, even when this might be awkward or make other people uncomfortable MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: To be perfectly frank with you, I don't think she's the person for the job. |
| DIRECT | FORMAL DEFINITION: MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: |
| OUTSPOKEN | FORMAL DEFINITION: MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: |
| OPEN | FORMAL DEFINITION: MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: |
| THE LUCK OF THE DRAW /ðə/ /lʌk/ /əv/ /ðə/ /drɔː/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: The result of chance and something that you have no control over. MY DEFINITION: A random result. EXAMPLE: You can't choose who you play against - it's just the luck of the draw. |
| TAKE A POT OF LUCK /teɪk/ /ə/ /pɒt/ /əv/ /lʌk/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Something good that happens to you by chance MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: |
| TO BE OUT OF LUCK /tuː/ /bɪ/ /aʊt/ /əv/ /lʌk/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: To be unable to have or do what you want. MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: "Do you have any tuna sandwiches?" "You're out luck - I just sold the last one." |
| PUSH YOUR LUCK /pʊʃ/ /jɔːr/ /lʌk/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: To try too hard to get a particular result and risk losing what you have achieved. MY DEFINITION: To be overconfident at an uncertain situation. EXAMPLE: She's agreed to help on Saturday, but I think I'd be pushing my luck if I asked her to be here the whole weekend. |
| NO SUCH LUCK /nəʊ/ /sʌtʃ/ /lʌk/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Used when you are disappointed that something that you hoped for did not happen MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: I was rather hoping it wouldn't rain today, but no such luck. |
| BY A STROKE OF LUCK /baɪ/ /ə/ /strəʊk/ /əv/ /lʌk/ | FORMAL DEFINITION: Something good that happens to you by chance MY DEFINITION: EXAMPLE: |
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